Summary

It’s been almost half a century since a painful disease wiped out half of the world’s population. It is now up to the world’s younger generations to save the human race – the government have deemed it mandatory that all teenagers, male and female, be paired at the age of eighteen. The goal for each couple is to produce at least one child in three years, with failure to co-operate bearing serious consequences.

Florence Powell, an emotional young girl with a passion for painting and literature, is thrown into a world of unconditional love and tormenting pain. She is paired with somebody she has already deemed deeply insufferable; her high school’s coldest heartthrob. Faced with the prospect of raising a child with somebody that finds her as intolerable, can she learn to love him? Or will she be sent to the outskirts of the city, to live with those that do not co-operate?